American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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